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that there w uld not have been any more, and in company 

 with debris oi' carnassiers, or that they would not, in that case, 

 have been removed, without exception. If the ossuary was 

 formed by progenitors of Basque, Euscarra, or Cantabrian 

 tribes (the most ancient marine Hyperboreans of the Ouralian 

 or Finnic stock in Western Europe), the presence of sacrificial 

 heads and antlers would call to mind a similar practice still in 

 vogue among the kindred pagan tribes in the Arctic regions, 

 where Elk and Reindeer horns invariably decorate the tumuli 

 of the dead, and would substantiate the inference that the lost 

 herbivorae here mentioned, including a Rhinoceros, were still 

 existing at a time when the people in question were already 

 settled in Southern Europe. 



From the foregoing observations, we have no grounds for 

 objecting to the coexistence of man with departed species, and 

 wc may naturally expect his debris to become more abundant, 

 in proportion as the others are less numerous, and will contain 

 an increasing number of the last extinguished, or of such as 

 are still in being : — Ruminants, among which may be reck- 

 oned Wrus, Bison, Elk, Reindeer, Sheep ; and Carnivora, 

 more particularly Bears, Felinse, and wild Canidoe, whereof 

 the Wolf is anion? the latest. 



We have adduced the foregoing facts and inferences, not 

 so much to establish the implied dependence that should be 

 placed upon them singly, but as inducements for the general 

 reader to bear them in mind as a whole, without which the 

 conditions of human life, in a primeval state, such as man's 

 distribution and earliest migrations, cannot be fairly reviewed. 

 Thus much we have deemed necessary, foregoing, at the same 

 time, to search beyond the later age of the great pachydermous 

 distribution. 



In a mental physiological retrospect, we might, perhaps, fan- 

 cifully, but not without truth, cast a pictorial glance over the 

 aspect of organic nature, as it may have been presented to the 



